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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.45x6.60x9.45 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Electronic music magazine, this copy including a feature on Daphne Oram, along with a review of the year, Young Marble Giants and Olafur Arnalds. 98 pages, col. ill. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 176 pages. 9.25x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 176 pages. 9.25x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daphne Oram helped spark a modern electronic music era through pioneering sound technology and fearless experimentation.Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the cofounder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left the BBC in 1959 to pursue commercial work in television, advertising, film, and theater, to make her own music for recording and performance, and to continue her personal research into sound technology - a passion she had had since her childhood in rural Wiltshire. Her home, a former oasthouse in Kent, became an unorthodox studio and workshop in which, mostly on a shoestring budget, she developed her pioneering equipment, sounds, and ideas. A significant part of her personal research was the invention of a machine that offered a new form of sound synthesis - the Oramics machine. Oram's contribution to electronic music is receiving considerable attention from new generations of composers, sound engineers, musicians, musicologists, and music lovers around the world. Following her death, the Daphne Oram Trust was established to preserve and promote her work, life, and legacy, and an archive created in the Special Collections Library at Goldsmiths, University of London. One of the Trust's ambitions has been to publish a new edition of Oram's one and only book, 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics', which was originally published in 1972. With support from the Daphne Oram Archive, the Trust has now been able to realize this ambition.'An Individual Note' is both curious and remarkable. When commissioned to write a book, she was keen to avoid it becoming a manual or how-to guide, preferring instead to use the opportunity to muse on the subjects of music, sound, and electronics, and the relationships between them. At a time when the world was just starting to engage with electronic music and the technology was still primarily in the hands of music studios, universities, and corporations, her approach was both innovative and inspiring, encouraging anyone with an interest in music to think about the nature, capabilities, and possibilities that the new sounds could bring. And her thinking was not limited to just the future of the orchestra, synthesizer, computer, and home studio, but ventured, with great spirit and wit, into other realms of science, technology, culture, and thought. 'An Individual Note' is a playful yet compelling manifesto for the dawn of electronic music and for our individual capacity to use, experience, and enjoy it. This new edition of 'An Individual Note' features a specially commissioned introduction from the British composer, performer, roboticist, and sound historian Sarah Angliss.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Daphne Oram | An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics | Daphne Oram | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2016 | Anomie Publishing | EAN 9781910221112 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

First edition of this manifesto of electronic music by one of the genre's foremost pioneers. "More a philosophical treatise than a textbook, yet accessibly written, it dealt broadly with the quest to humanize electronic sound" (ODNB). Although institutionally well represented, it is rare on the market, particularly so in such fine condition. Oram composed the first electronic soundtrack to a television play in 1957, for Amphitryon 38, and was a central figure in the the foundation of the influential BBC Radiophonic Workshop in April 1958. She later set up her studio at Tower Folly in Kent where she "developed her own method of electronic sound generation. Her 'Oramics' machine worked much as an oscilloscope in reverse, generating sounds from waveforms drawn onto 35 mm films. These were passed under photo-electric cells, and controlled musical parameters such as pitch, timbre, and reverberation" (ODNB). Oram was commissioned to write An Individual Note as part of a Gulbenkian Foundation grant, but, rather than writing a straightforward manual, preferred to ruminate on the relationships between music, sound and electronics. At a time when the world was just starting to engage with electronic music and when the technology was still primarily in the hands of large music studios, her approach was innovative and inspiring and encouraged anyone with an interest in music to think about the possibilities that new sounds could bring. Her thinking was not confined to the future of music but also explored science, technology, culture and thought. Octavo. Folding plate, diagrams within text. Original laminated card wrappers. A fine copy.…